Charleston shooting: Latest developments

Several funerals and other services have been set for the nine people slain in a shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

Clementa Pinckney: After a public viewing in Columbia Wednesday, the casket of the minister and state senator will be at St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ridgeland from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and at Emanuel AME from 6-8 p.m. Pinckney’s funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at TD Arena. Burial will take place directly afterward at St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in Marion.

Sharonda Coleman-Singleton: Funeral services will be held st 2 p.m. Thursday at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston. A viewing will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Cynthia Hurd: A wake will be held from 8:30-10 p.m. Friday at Emanuel AME. Hurd’s funeral will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at the church, including burial at the church cemetery.

Tywanza Sanders: Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Emanuel AME in Charleston.

Ethel Lance: Visitation will be held Wednesday from 5-8 p.m., and the funeral will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston.

Susie Jackson: Funeral services will held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Emanuel AME in Charleston.

Funeral arrangements are being finalized for Myra Thompson, Daniel Simmons and Depayne Middleton-Doctor.

SCE&G donates $100,000, matches employee gifts

South Carolina Electric & Gas is donating $100,000 to the Charleston church where nine members were shot to death last week.

Kevin Marsh — chairman and CEO of SCANA, SCE&G’s parent company — said the utility also would match its employees’ contributions, dollar for dollar, to Emanuel AME.

Jill Biden, John Boehner to attend Friday funeral

Dr. Jill Biden will join her husband, Vice President Joe Biden, at Friday’s funeral service in Charleston for state Sen. Clementa Pinckney. President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will lead the bipartisan congressional delegation traveling to South Carolina for the funeral.

Clinton: Confederate flag should not be ‘anywhere’

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the Confederate battle flag should not be displayed “anywhere.”

The Democratic presidential candidate called the deadly shootings of nine black church members in Charleston “an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God.”

Clinton called the Confederate flag a “symbol of our nation’s racist past that has no place in our present or our future. It shouldn’t fly there. It shouldn’t fly anywhere.”

Confederate monument marked with ‘Black Lives Matter'

Asheville police are investigating the defacing of a monument commemorating Zebulon Vance, a former N.C. governor and senator following the Civil War.

Someone used red spray paint to write “Black Lives Matter” on the monument in downtown Asheville. An eyewitness reported a white woman sprayed the graffiti about 2 a.m. Tuesday.

City employees quickly removed the graffiti with a pressure washer, and the statue was clean by sunrise.

N.C. governor wants Confederate flag off plates

Gov. Pat McCrory plans to ask the N.C. General Assembly to pass a law that would discontinue the use of the Confederate flag on specialty license plates issued by the state.

A spokesman confirmed Tuesday the governor’s decision to ask the legislature to make the change in light of the mass shootings in Charleston and a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe earlier in the day announced steps to have the Confederate flag removed from his state’s license plates.

Both states print specialty plates for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, with a logo featuring the Confederate flag.

Staff, Associated Press reports

This story was originally published June 23, 2015 at 7:11 PM with the headline "Charleston shooting: Latest developments."